Orkney Surnames in the 1871 Census

(Report date: 03/05/24)

Surname	Count
?	14
Abernethy	2
Adams	1
Adamson	13
Aim	22
Aitken	37
Aitkin	3
Alexander	37
Allan	233
Allen	5
Allon	2
Alquist	1
Anderson	189
Andrew	1
Angel	5
Angell	3
Angus	45
Annal	95
Annand ?	1
Archibald	6
Arcus	8
Arkus	1
Armit	4
Armour	8
Arthur	3
Audas	1
Baikie	158
Baillie	16
Bain	61
Baine ?	2
Bakie	1
Baldwin	1
Balentine	1
Balfour	28
Ballantine	6
Ballantyne	8
Ballatyne	1
Ballenden	17
Ballentine	18
Ballentyne	7
Banks	95
Barnet	15
Barnetson	1
Barnett	18
Barney	5
Barron	19
Barrow	1
Barry	7
Basketter	3
Beaton	4
Beattie	2
Beattie M A ?	1
Beatton	20
Begg	21
Bell	9
Benston	19
Benstown	1
Berry	1
Berstan	1
Berston	38
Bertram	16
Bews	275
Bias	16
Bichan	67
Bigland	11
Birnie	6
Birse	6
Black	11
Blackhall	2
Blank	1
Boivie ?	4
Bonthron	1
Borwick	60
Bothwell	1
Bottly	1
Bramner	20
Brash	1
Brashe ?	1
Brass	116
Breck	5
Bremner	47
Brock	19
Brodie	51
Broke	3
Brotchie	5
Brough	29
Brown	278
Bruce	103
Brunton	1
Buchan	14
Buchanan	5
Budge	177
Burgar	39
Burgess	29
Burghar	5
Burgher	5
Burke	5
Burnett	8
Burnie	1
Burns	4
Burt	2
Byas	3
Byers	3
Byres	4
Caithness	37
Calder	15
Cambell	1
Cameron	5
Camp	1
Campbell	62
Carltoun	1
Carruthers	2
Carter	3
Caskey	8
Caskie	1
Cassie	4
Castles	1
Cavage ?	2
Challice	3
Chalmers	157
Chambers	25
Charles	1
Charleson	3
Charlesworth	3
Chiene	1
Chisholm	7
Christian	7
Christie	11
Chrystall	7
Clark	27
Clarke	2
Cleat	7
Cleugh	4
Clinghorn	6
Cliugh	1
Clouston	263
Clyne	6
Cobban	2
Cock	15
Coghill	9
Cogle	16
Colston	4
Comlaquoy	11
Conner	1
Conner ?	2
Connon ?	4
Connor	1
Cook	4
Cooper	94
Copeland	6
Copland	51
Corigal	1
Corigall	1
Cormack	119
Cormick	1
Corner	14
Corrigal	41
Corrigall	156
Corse	37
Corsie	71
Corston	17
Costie	26
Coull	2
Couper	48
Coupland	5
Cowan	7
Cowper	25
Cragie	3
Craig	6
Craigie	316
Crawford	2
Crear	17
Creelman	10
Crichton	5
Cromarty	185
Cromerty	2
Crowe	1
Crowson ?	1
Croy	84
Cruickshank	11
Crukshank	2
Crystal	1
Cufser	1
Cummin	1
Cumming	89
Cummins	1
Cursiter	60
Cursitor	2
Cusiter	6
Cusitter	5
Cuthbert	6
Cutt	106
Dallas	3
Dangerfield	2
Danock ?	1
Dass	29
Davidson	86
Davie	12
Davis	1
Davy	1
Dearness	117
Deerness	19
DeLahay	1
Delday	34
Deldy	5
Dennison	51
Dewar	1
Dick	5
Dickson	70
Dinnison	1
Dishan	25
Dishon	3
Don	1
Donahoe	1
Donald	5
Donaldson	28
Doras	1
Dorn	1
Douglas	14
Doull	6
Dow	1
Dowd	1
Downie	4
Downie ?	1
Draver	1
Dreaver	25
Drevar	10
Drever	415
Driver	13
Drummond	39
Drydon	1
Duff	4
Duguid	3
Dunbar	1
Duncan	106
Dundas	2
Dunn	2
Dunnet	65
Dunnett	8
Durrand	2
Dyer	4
Edgar	1
Edmonstone	1
Elfaston ?	2
Elphinstone	8
Esslement	7
Esslemont	3
Esson	74
Eunson	156
Evans	4
Ewing	15
Fair	1
Farney ?	2
Farny ?	1
Farquhar	7
Fea	32
Fergus	16
Ferguson	3
Ferrier	12
Fiddes	1
Fiddler	56
Fidler	2
Finch?	1
Findlater	7
Findlay	16
Finlay	12
Finlayson	12
Finley	1
Finnison	2
Firth	165
Fisher	6
Flaws	64
Fleming	3
Flett	560
Flood	4
Florance	1
Florence	6
Floyd	1
Flynn	1
Folsetter	11
Folster	71
Forbes	15
Ford	6
Forquhar	1
Fotheringham	8
Fotheringhame	59
Foubester	3
Foubister	180
Foules	1
Foulis	71
Fouls	3
Fowles	2
Fowlis	8
Fraser	35
Fresken	2
Frisken	26
Friskin	1
Gaddie	13
Gallee	2
Gamble	1
Gardner	4
Garrick	24
Garrioch	168
Garriock	50
Garrock	9
Garsen ?	1
Garson	158
Gatt	3
Gaudie	27
Gauldie ?	1
Geddes	2
Geddis	2
George	3
Gerrard	8
Gibson	127
Gillespie	13
Gillies	3
Gilruth	1
Glendinning	1
Glumell	1
Goar	43
Gold	4
Goldberg	3
Goldie	1
Goldier	1
Goodsir	9
Gordon	8
Gore	5
Gorie	20
Gorn	30
Gorrie	17
Gosbell	1
Goudie	5
Gow	10
Graham	10
Grame	1
Grant	16
Gray	154
Gray ?	2
Greave	11
Green	32
Greig	7
Greve	2
Grey	4
Grieg	1
Grieve	57
Griffin	2
Groat	143
Groundwater	103
Gullian	5
Gullion	29
Gun	1
Gunn	151
Gunsalvo	2
Gutcher	23
Gutherie	1
Guthrie	102
H..... ?	3
Hackland	14
Hacrow	4
Hadden	8
Hagan	5
Halcro	59
Halcrow	15
Halley	1
Handyside	1
Hanerith	4
Hanry	1
Harcus	269
Harold	6
Harp	2
Harper	60
Harrald	1
Harray	14
Harrison	1
Harrold	88
Harvey	177
Hatlow	4
Hay	141
Heddle	186
Heden	1
Heillon	10
Helley	1
Henderson	18
Henry	13
Hepburn	77
Hercus	112
Herdman	7
Hervy	1
Hewison	52
Hiddleston	2
Higgings	1
Hill	4
Himager	1
Hitchison	5
Hochlar ?	1
Holland	16
Holmes	1
Homister	1
Horie	1
Horn	11
Horn ?	1
Horne	21
Horrie	14
Hossack	6
Hourie	59
Hourston	200
Houston	9
Howatt	4
Hubbard	1
Hudson	1
Humbery ?	9
Hume	23
Humphrey	5
Hunter	61
Hurston	6
Hury	10
Hutcheson	5
Hutchieson	1
Hutchison	89
Hyat	1
Hyslop	1
Ingram	8
Inkster	113
Innes	1
Ireland	2
Ironside	7
Ironsides	2
Irvine	273
Irving	1
Isbester	6
Isbister	254
Iverach	7
Jamieson	3
Jeames	1
Jeffery	5
Jobson	8
Johnson	1
Johnston	485
Johnstone	64
Jolly	6
Jones	5
Kay	3
Keetley	3
Keith	1
Kelday	26
Keldie	24
Keldy	11
Kemp	16
Kendrew	1
Kennedy	25
Kent	49
Kerr	1
King	36
Kippen	2
Kirkness	227
Kirkpatrick	33
Knarston	19
Knight	20
Lahore ?	1
Lail	1
Laird	97
Lamond	7
Lamont	2
Langskail	5
Langskaill	30
Lanskail	1
Lanskaill	4
LARNACH	1
Laughton	209
Laverty	1
Law	1
Lawloo	1
Lawson	3
Leal	5
Leamonth	1
Learmond	1
Learmonth	99
Leask	241
Leath	1
Leavock	2
Lees	1
Leitch	1
Leith	58
Lennie	146
Leonard	56
Leslie	187
Levack	1
Liddel	2
Liddle	51
Lilburne	1
Lillburn	5
Lillburne	1
Linay	5
Linketar	1
Linklater	352
Linklet	5
Linkskill	2
Linnay	8
Linnie	1
Linskill	3
Logan	1
Logie	148
Long	1
Loutit	8
Loutitt	1
Louttit	202
Low	26
Low ?	1
Lowe	1
Lyall	14
Lyial	1
Lyle	1
Lynch	4
Lyon	36
M... ?	1
MacDonald	11
MacGregor	1
MacInnes	2
MacKay	54
MacKenzie	23
Mackie	1
Mackinlay	1
Macrae	1
Maguffie	1
Mainland	201
Mair	3
Makinson	4
Malcolmson	15
Malcomson	5
Mancur	1
Manson	181
Marshall	8
Martin	5
Marwick	220
Mason	23
Masson	4
Matches	85
Matheson	10
Mathewson	1
Mathieson	14
Mathison	10
Matland	2
Matthewson	3
Maxwell	53
McAdie	7
McBeath	19
McBeith	1
McCallum	2
McCloskie	1
McCune ?	1
McDonald	56
McDuff	1
McEuris	1
McFea	1
McGhee	5
McGhie	5
McGillavry	5
McGillvary	5
McGregor	20
McGrigor	1
McGuire	2
McIntosh	13
McIntyre	3
McIver	10
McIvor	1
McKay	163
McKenzie	78
McKidd	1
McKie	3
McKinlay	17
McKinley	1
Mckinsey	1
McLachlan	8
McLaren	2
McLean	1
McLellan	8
McLenand	1
McLeod	11
McMan	1
McMannan	1
McNeil	1
McNeill	1
McPherson	4
McQuire	5
McShane	2
McTavish	3
Meadows	6
Meal	2
Meason	14
Meiklejohn	8
Meil	55
Meill	10
Melville	13
Melvin	3
Merriman	65
Michael	20
Michie	6
Miles	2
Mill	7
Millan	7
Millar	78
Miller	375
Mills	2
Milne	45
Mirriman	11
Mitchell	28
Moar	247
Moare	1
Modie	3
Moncrieff	1
Montagu	1
Montgomery	8
Moodie	160
Moody	1
Mooney	17
Moore	2
More	1
Morgan	9
Morison	1
Morrison	36
Mortimer	2
Morton	1
Morwick	2
Moser ?	1
Moss	7
Mouat	1
Mour ?	1
Mowat	354
Mowatt	18
Mudie	12
Muir	530
Muirden	8
Munro	28
Mure	5
Mure ?	1
Murison	3
Murray	29
Murrell	9
Mutch	15
Narston	1
Naughty	2
Newland	8
Nicholson	35
Nickol	1
Nicol	11
Nicolson	80
Nisbet	4
Nisbett	1
Norn	15
Norquay	149
Norquoy	43
Nowland	6
O'Kean	1
Oag	6
Oddie	37
Offord	1
Ogilvie	2
Oliver	6
Ollay	2
Oman	20
Omand	87
Omond	20
Osborne	10
Paplay	22
Papley	1
Park	61
Paterson	69
Paton	2
Patterson	2
Paul	1
Pavey	1
Pavie	3
Peabels	1
Peace	273
Pearson	24
Peddie	5
Peebles	3
Peel	6
Peerie ?	1
Pegler	1
Pelham	2
Peterson	2
Petrie	127
Philips	21
Phillips	10
Phimister	1
Pierson	3
Pirie	19
Plank	8
Plister	2
Pool	1
Poole	1
Porteous	11
Potinger	1
Pottingar	5
Pottinger	110
Potts	5
Pratt	22
Queen	2
Rae	11
Rae ?	4
Ramsay	4
Redland	4
Reed	1
Reid	305
Remshaws	2
Rendal	21
Rendall	494
Rennie	1
Renton	12
Rergsbay ?	1
Rettie	2
Rich	7
Riddoch	7
Rider	1
Ritch	184
Ritchie	18
Robb	22
Robertson	418
Robeson	3
Robinson	3
Robison ?	1
Robson	38
Rogerson	7
Rolland	1
Ronaldson	1
Ronalson	2
Ronston ?	2
Rorie	8
Rorrie	1
Rory	3
Rose	6
Rosie	129
Ross	117
Rossie	39
Rousay	56
Rousey	5
Rowin	1
Rowland	15
Roxburgh	1
Roy	4
Rugg	4
Runciman	2
Rusland	6
Russel	7
Russeland	1
Russell	61
Russland	2
Rust	3
Ryrie	3
Sabeston	3
Sabiston	122
Sandason	3
Sanders	1
Sandison	83
Sandison ?	1
Sangster	9
Saunders	13
Scarth	50
Scholey	1
Scholly	1
Sclater	126
Sclatter	1
Scoley	4
Scolie	5
Scollay	19
Scolley	19
Scollie	7
Scolly	16
Scoly	1
Scot	1
Scott	475
Seater	72
Seator	56
Seatter	117
Sebiston	6
Sellar	1
Setter	3
Seymour	4
Sharp	3
Shaw	7
Shearer	333
Sherar	7
Shethway	1
Shewan	1
Short	11
Shurrie	13
Shutze	5
Sim	5
Simeson	11
Simieson	1
Simison	5
Simpson	122
Sinclair	1017
Skea	126
Skeitheway	8
Skethaway	1
Sketheway	8
Skethway	2
Skillen	1
Skinner	22
Slater	67
Slatter	29
Sletter	5
Sloan	1
Small	1
Smellie	1
Smith	466
Snoddie	1
Snodie	2
Sobtory ?	1
Somervile	4
Souter	1
Spark	10
Spedding	1
Spence	537
Stalker	1
Stanger	106
Stenger	1
Stenson	1
Stephen	11
Steven	9
Stevenson	146
Stewart	62
Stewart ?	1
Stickler	18
Still	9
Stock	1
Stockan	37
Stockand	3
Stokoe	2
Stormonth	1
Stott	5
Stout	112
Stove	49
Strang	2
Struthers	3
Stuard	2
Stuart	7
Sutherland	403
Sutherland ?	1
Swan	2
Swanay	4
Swaney	72
Swannay	9
Swanney	128
Swannie	35
Swanny	5
Swanson	64
Swanston	7
Sword	2
Swordie	1
Symison	3
T.. ?	1
Tait	213
Taylor	302
Teviotdale	1
Thomison	36
Thompson	47
Thomson	504
Tinch	9
Todd	1
Tomieson	13
Tomison	39
Topp	4
Torfaens	7
Torry	2
Towers	55
Towrie	14
Traill	28
Trumbland	16
Tulloch	449
Tullock	33
Turface	9
Turfae	6
Turfeus	2
Turfue	1
Turfus	41
Turner	4
Turphis	1
Turphus	6
Twat	2
Twatt	54
Tyrie	4
Vallian	3
Vedder	12
Vellain	1
Vellian	1
Vellzian	2
Velzian	21
Venton	3
Voy	17
Vucoul	1
Waddington	1
Wagner	1
Wald	9
Walker	16
Wallace	106
Walls	129
Walter	31
Ward	4
Wardes	1
Wards	121
WARES	14
Wares ?	2
Warren	5
Waters	4
Waterson	1
Watson	20
Watt	21
Watt ?	2
Watters	17
Webster	5
Weir	1
Wesness	3
Westness	4
White	21
Whitelaw	2
Whitlaw	8
Whyte	2
Wick	24
Widdowson	2
Wildrage	1
Wilhamina	2
Will	9
Williamson	46
Willison	1
Willitts	6
Wilson	248
Windwick	8
Wingate	9
Winship	1
Winwick	1
Wiseman	3
Wishart	104
Wood	127
Woodrow	1
Wooldrage	23
Wooldridge	11
Wooldrige	1
Work	197
Wright	11
Wylie	115
Wyllie	11
Wyness	1
Yates	6
Yorston	105
Young	29
Yule	6